Lord Randolph Churchill, in his speech at Worcester, said that
he had " a constitutional objection to strong language." His constitution must then have undergone an extraordinary crisis within a very few months. Almost at the time be was alluding to this very novel constitutional peculiarity of his, Mr. Chamberlain was contrasting the respectful and even modest language in which Lord Randolph Churchill spoke of Mr. Bright a few days ago, with the language which he applied to the same great man a year or so ago :—" Mr.
John Bright and his dear friend Mr. Cobden were nothing more than two plundering cuckoos, who shamefully ejected Mr. Charles Villiers from the nest which he had constructed, and who had laid therein their own chattering and silly brood. Mr. John Bright swallowed two bloody wars with the calcu- lating meanness of the sect to which he belongs. He lolled at ease in his sinecure office, and enjoyed its emoluments. The robe of righteousness with which he has clothed his own squalid and corrupt form shall be torn asunder." Did ever a political constitution undergo a more critical change in the course of a twelvemonth than Lord Randolph Churchill's ?
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